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This Republican shift is giving us new hope on immigration

There is a long way to go before an immigration deal is struck, but the president and Congress can draw its outlines clearly, starting now. Any worthwhile reform must give 11 million undocumented immigrants a way to live within the law as American citizens. Mr. Obama’s stopgap move to protect young immigrants and students from deportation by a regulation similar to the Dream Act was sensible and necessary. But these Americans-in-fact deserve the chance to be Americans on paper, too. So do their parents, and whoever else in the 11 million wishes to journey from “them” to “us.” Republicans are floating schemes for temporary legal status for workers without a clear path to citizenship. Mr. Obama should make clear that basic equality demands more than that.

Meanwhile, he should be reforming the way his administration is carrying out current law — starting with scaling back its arbitrary, self-imposed quota of 400,000 deportations a year. There is enforcement work to be done, like finding more effective ways to stifle illegal employment, but any strategy that fixates on deportations and the border is foolish and ineffective. Illegal border crossings and arrests at the border have fallen to the lowest levels in decades. The unauthorized immigrants whom hard-liners want to keep out are already in the country. They are the workers and families Mr. Obama says he wants to integrate and assimilate, even as his policies break those families apart. Mr. Obama’s own Department of Homeland Security is a huge part of the problem, with its dangerous and widening use of state and local police officers as surrogate immigration enforcement agents. Its Secure Communities program has led to mass deportations of minor offenders and even people with no criminal records.

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To believe than providing citizenship will stem the tide of futher illegal immigration is as stupid minded as thinking that legalizing pot will stop the War on Drugs.

If you make these people citizens, they’ll be paid a US wage by law. Your food bill will go up until … wait for it. Yes, the next wave of illegal immigrants show up to work outside our employment laws.

There is no Republican shift. There are only some Republican lawmakers who remain fools.

There is wide public support for tighter immigration enforcement. In a May 2010 Pew poll taken just after the Arizona laws were passed, 73 percent approved of the law’s requirement that people produce documents verifying their legal status, 67 percent approved of allowing the police to detain people who cannot do so and 62 percent approved of allowing police to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally.

So someone please explain to me ….do the majority of the American people favor new amnesty proposals? It sure doesn’t look like it to me.

Why in the world would any country want to encourage people to come to their country who cannot provide for themselves, have zero to few skills, & intend to live off of the public dole?
Why, a country run by corrupt politicians of all stripes, that’s what kind of country.

This is essentially a grant of reparations to Mexico for American perfidy since 1836. There wouldn’t be an illegal immigrant problem of bothersome dimensions if Mexico weren’t (a) dysfunctional , (b) on our border and (c)run by highly nationalistic elites resentful of their historical treatment by Yankee imperialists. If the amnesty crowd were honest it would remind white Americans that we owe what’s left of our power and prosperity to oppressed Mexicans just as we did to black slaves and Chinese coolies, and this is an opportunity to start making it right.

But don’t make a silly joke out if it by preaching about assimilationist Americanism when nobody in the pro-amnesty coalition of vote-hungry politicians, labor-craving employers, guilt-ridden celebrities and racist Mexican irredentists has the slightest intention of asking their charges to so much as hyphenate their identities. That’s supposed to happen out of thin air, with suitable apologies for the inadvertent imposition.

How’s this for a Republican shift, I stop paying for…everything. I charge my groceries and don’t pay the bill. I go to the hospital for my medical and I ignore payment notices. I stop paying any bill that comes to me including my mortgage and property taxes.

What would happen if all of the honest hard-working legal citizens of this country just went on strike? I’m very serious about this too.